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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
Contributor(s): Morton, Frederic (Author)

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ISBN: 014005667X     ISBN-13: 9780140056679
Publisher: Penguin Books
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1980
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Annotation: On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed height of the Viennese Carnival, the Handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and them himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Austria & Hungary
- History | Western Europe - General
Dewey: 943.613
LCCN: 80017493
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.1" W x 7.76" L (0.54 lbs) 352 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
 
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On January 30, 1889, at the champagne-splashed hight of the Viennese Carnival, the handsome and charming Crown Prince Rudolf fired a revolver at his teenaged mistress and then himself. The two shots that rang out at Mayerling in the Vienna Woods echo still.

Frederic Morton, author of the bestselling Rothschilds, deftly tells the haunting story of the Prince and his city, where, in the span of only ten months, the Western dream started to go wrong. In Rudolf's Vienna moved other young men with striking intellectual and artistic talents--and all as frustrated as the Prince. Among them were: young Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Theodor Herzl, Gustav Klimt, and the playwright Arthur Schnitzler, whose La Ronde was the great erotic drama of the fin de siecle. Morton studies these and other gifted young men, interweaving their fates with that of the doomed Prince and the entire city through to the eve of Easter, just after Rudolf's body is lowered into its permanent sarcophagus and a son named Adolf Hitler is born to Frau Klara Hitler.

 
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